Sweet Puttu with jaggery

Sweet Puttu with jaggery & Red rice flour

Sweet Puttu is a traditional delicacy with a sweet flavor and taste. The mildly sweet Sweet Puttu is usually prepared during festive occasions like Navarathri. Sweet Puttu is delicately unique and tasty with cooked rice flour/ragi flour/wheat flour/red rice flour blended with jaggery or sugar as per your taste. Sweet Puttu requires very few ingredients and can be prepared very easily in a few minutes. You can explore a well detailed Sweet Puttu here.

INGREDIENTS

• Rice flour - 1 cup
• powdered Jaggery or sugar - 1 cup
• Cardamon powder - 1 tsp
• Salt - a pinch
• Ghee - 2 tsp
• Cashews - a few (optional)

How to...prepare?

1. For preparing Sweet Puttu, first, fry the flour of your choice - White rice, red rice, brown rice, ragi, wheat flour...here I used ragi & red rice (50/50)  till it turns color to light red.
2. Add salt to it along with a little warm water and mix well in the same way you make the usual puttu.
3. Make puttu with the above mixture in the usual way using traditional puttu maker, or steam it in the pressure cooker, just like idli. 
4. Once the puttu is steamed, spread it in a plate, add powdered jaggery, powdered cardamon, and shredded fresh coconut and mix well. Jaggery mixes well when the puttu is hot.
5. Heat ghee, add cashews, fry to a golden brown. Add it to the prepared puttu...Serve it warm.
6.  Sweet Puttu can be stored for around 3 - 4 weeks.